Art Colonies, Workshops & Event

Art Colony

2025

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2022

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2019

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2018

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2015

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2014

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2013

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2012

• International Art Colony Počitelj, Čapljina, BiH

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2011

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2010

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2009

• International Comic Workshop Bitta Generation, Vasto, Italy

• International Art Colony Duga, Kulen Vakuf, BiH

2007

• International Art Colony Vranduk, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Workshops, Lectures & Educational Projects

2025

• “Exploring Global Issues Through Peace Pedagogy and Collaborative Art”, Participant & Workshop Leader, UN Week Symposium, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
• The Bosnian House: A Mirror of Interculturalism: Tradition, Heritage, and Values – Presentation and workshop on printmaking (monotype) for visiting Princeton University students, with Amer Hadžić, Eldina Kožljak & Maja Hodžić, Arka – Art & Education Center, Sarajevo, BiH

2024

• Explorers of the Arka – Series of creative and educational workshops for children (ages 6–12), Arka – Art & Education Center, Sarajevo, BiH

2023

• Thriving Futures – Selected Artist, Ithaca Murals and Get Your GreenBack Tompkins, Ithaca, NY, USA

2017

• Coordinator of Street Art Workshop Youth inclusion and participation through green areas, Torino di Sangro, Italy

2015

• Guest Artist – Creative expression to promote Human Rights Workshop, Verviers, Belgium

• Guest Artist – Youth Centres and youth inclusion: creativity and artistic expression Workshop, Vasto, Italy

• Guest Artist – Art and creativity to promote human and social rights Workshop, Torino di Sangro, Italy

2014

• UN Day – Mural Workshop, Doboj, BiH

• MemorInmotion – Culture of Remembrance Workshops, Days of Peace – Citizens in solidarity for the Peace, Doboj, Tešanj, Banja Luka, BiH

• Workshop leader with Michele Parente (forumZFD) – MOnuMENTImotion – The Art of Dealing with the Past for Reconciliation, International Youth Conference Mlada Evropa, Sarajevo, BiH

• Workshop leader with Marko Krojač (photo journalist) and Michele Parente (forumZFD) – MOnuMENTImotion – The Art of Dealing with the Past in Western Balkans, forumZFD, Sarajevo, BiH

2013

• Guest Artist – International Meeting make it possible: Youth Centers & Urban Street Culture, Berlin, Germany

• Leader of Street Art Workshop – World Vision´s Art Network Project, Banovići–Petrovo–Poljice, BiH

• Street Art Workshop Leader – World Vision´s Art Network Project, Poljice, BiH

• Street Art Workshop Leader – World Vision´s Art Network Project, Petrovo, BiH

• Street Art Workshop Leader – World Vision´s Art Network Project, Banovići, BiH

• Workshop leader – Comics sessions on the topic of Nonviolence, KidsFest 2013, Sarajevo, BiH

• Short lecture – Anime, Japanese Animation, Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, BiH

• Guest Artist – International Meeting Youth Centers & Urban Culture 2013, Banja Luka, BiH

2012

• Workshop leader – Street Art, Bitta Generation 2012, Pančevo, Serbia

2004

• Organizer – Workshop by comic artist Maja Veselinović, Comic School @ CSI, Iliđa, Sarajevo, BiH

• Organizer – Workshop by comic artist Aleksandar Zograf, Comic School @ CSI, Iliđa, Sarajevo, BiH

• Founder, Coordinator and Workshop Leader – Comic School @ CSI, Iliđa, Sarajevo, BiH

2003

• Founder, Coordinator and Workshop Leader – Comic School @ CSI, Iliđa, Sarajevo, BiH

• Workshop Leader – Comics session in primary school Hrasnica, Sarajevo, BiH

Projects, Memberships, Awards & Organizational Roles

2025

• Preparation and Coordination of the exhibition 1990s, Years of Transition: South Africa, Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in commemoration of the International Day of Peace and the 30th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide, organized by the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, hosted by the Center for Peace Education (Peace Education Hub), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo.
• Media Developer and Communications Coordinator – Peace Education Curriculum Project: Promoting A Culture Of Peace Through Formal Education, Peace Education Hub (University of Sarajevo – Faculty of Philosophy) in collaboration with UNESCO BiH, Sarajevo, BiH

2024

• Coordinator and Program/Project Developer – Arka – Art & Education Center, as active member of the Association for the Promotion of Culture and Art – Arka, Sarajevo, BiH

• Awarded a Grant for This is A®merica exhibition, Ministry of Culture and Sports of Sarajevo Canton, BiH

• Awarded Status of Distinguished Independent Artist of Canton Sarajevo, by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Canton Sarajevo, BiH

2023

• Meeting with the Artist: Q&A, Hanami (花見 – Flower Viewing), Community School of Music and Arts, Ithaca, NY, USA

2018

• Organizer and Curator – Japanesque, group exhibition for Japanese September, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, BiH

• Lecture – Everything in Japan is Art or How to Live without Mori Gallery and Ghibli Museum, for the exhibition Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art, National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, BiH

2017

• MOnuMENTImotion in selection of the 4th Festival of Contemporary Art arTz, Tuzla, BiH

• Curator – Muha + Blackbox present Celovi iz Anima / Anime Cels 1978–1984, BlackBox Print Shop & Gallery, Sarajevo, BiH

2016

• Organizer – 20 Artists for 20 Years, Group Exhibition at Takanawa Civic Center Gallery, Minato, Tokyo, Japan

• Organizer – All We Could Have Done (and What We Can Do Now), Group Exhibition at Sophia University, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

2015

• MOnuMENTImotion in selection of the International Animated Film Festival “Banjaluka 2015”, Banja Luka, BiH

• Sara Art Fair 2015, Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, BiH

2014

• MOnuMENTImotion in selection of IWM Short Film Festival 2014, London, UK

• Days of Peace – Citizens in Solidarity for the Peace, Doboj, Tešanj, Banja Luka, BiH

• MOnuMENTImotion Screening @ Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo, BiH

• Memory Walk B&H & MOnuMENTImotion – Screening & Q&A, Kriterion, Sarajevo, BiH

• MOnuMENTImotion @ Anibar Animation Festival 2014, Peć, Kosovo

• MOnuMENTImotion Premiere and Round-table @ PeaceEventSarajevo, Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, BiH

2013

• Forum – How to be Anime Otaku on Balkan, Dom Kulture Studentski Grad, Beograd, Serbia

• Presentation – 100 Views of Ukiyo-e, Dom Kulture Studentski Grad, Beograd, Serbia

2012–2015

• Full Member – Association of Visual Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ULUBiH)
  (left in October 2015)

2007

• Organizer – Promotion of Enki Bilal´s graphic novel 4?, Sarajevo, BiH

2004

• Organizer – Group Exhibition of the Best Bosnian Comic Award 2004, CSI, Sarajevo, BiH

• Organizer – Group Exhibition of Comic Artists, CSI, Sarajevo, BiH

• Presenter – GRRR! 3 – International Comics Festival, Pančevo, Serbia

• Organizer – Promotion of Enki Bilal´s graphic novel 32. December, Sarajevo, BiH & Zagreb, Croatia

• Member of Organizing Committee – Best Bosnian Comic Award 2004, Sarajevo, BiH

2003–2004

• Coordinator – Comic School @ CSI, Sarajevo, BiH